Medicinal compound for external use as a plaster or ointment



hll'lED STATES rarenr 'DFMCEQ ELIZABETH PARKER KELLEY, OF PHILADELBHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

llIEDIC'INAL COMPOUND FOR EXTERNAL USE AS A PLASTER OR OINTMEN'T.

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T 0 (6U 20 ham it may concern Be it known that I, ELIZABETH PARKER KELLEY, a. citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Medicinal Compounds for External Use as a Plaster or Ointment, of which the follow ing is a specification.

This invention relates to medicinal compounds; and the objects and nature of the invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art in the light of the following explanation of an embodiment of the invention and a Inethodof compounding the same.

An object of the invention is to produce a new compound that will possess peculiar medicinal virtues when employed as a poultice, plaster or ointment in the treatment of infected, inflamed or diseased portions or organs of the human body, and particularly when employed as a plaster or poultice compound on the chest and back in the treatment of pneumonia cases.

I have discovered that a plastic or poultice compound that includes Isarol or its medical equivalent ichthyol, and certain other ingredients or their medical equivalents, is of peculiar medical value and assistance in the treatment of pneumonia cases, when applied to the exterior of the body over the chest cavity.

For instance, I find that a compound that includes Isarol (or ichthyol) belladonna; and a suitable body, vehicle or carrier such as benzionated lard, possesses marked medicinal value when used as an exterior poultice, plaster or ointment over or adjacent to the affected interior organ or portion of the body particularly in pneumonia cases.

In preparing this compound, I usually mix liquid Isarol with benzoinated lard in the proportions of approximately one part of Isarol, by weight, with approximately three parts of benzoinated lard, by weight.

I also mix extract of belladonna (say in the gum-like or solid form) with benzoinated lard, in the proportions of approxi- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1922.

Application. filed February 25, 1919. Serial No. 279,169.

tion-like, and in use in pneumonia cases, the

compound is spread over the chest and back to form a layer or plaster and is then covered with absorbent cotton or the like.

The benzoinated lard apparently performs an important function in so softening the affected parts and mucous mass as to render the same more susceptible to the cooperating medicinal functions of the Isarol in drawing, and the belladonna in drying up.

As at present advised by experience, I prefer to employ ichthyol instead of Isarol, but now employ Isarol which is the medicinal equivalent of ichthyol, because of the present difiiculty of securing ichthyol in this country.

It is my understanding that Isarol is in the nature of a trade name for purified ichthyol, a material that is the medicinal equivalent of ichthyol.

While I prefer to employ benzoinated lard as the vehicle as it is superior to any other ingredient for this purpose, that I have as yet discovered, yet I do not wish to limit myself strictly thereto.

Also, I do not wish to limit myself to the various proportions herein stated nor to any particular extract percentages although I usually employ twenty five per cent extracts of belladonna and Isarol as commonly found on the market.

What I claim is 1. A medicinal plaster, ointment, or poultice for external use, embodying ichthyol, belladonna, and benzoinated lard.

2. A medicinal plaster, ointment or poulbelladonna, and benzoinated lard, the proportion of benzolnated lard being approximately three tunes the combined proportions of lohthyol and belladonna, and the proportion of lchthyol being approximately twice the proportion of belladonna.

ELIZABETH PARKER KELLEY. 

